MIKE RUTHERFORD

MOTORING'S MOST OUTSPOKEN COLUMNIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF AUTO EXPRESS

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MUCH as I love Formula One, it’s nowhere near as productive, cost-effective, flexible and entertaining as it needs to be in the mid-2020s.

During most Grand Prix weekends, which last three largely uneventful days and nights, there's typically only one and a half hours of actual F1 racing.

Some under-performing, serial losing teams - each with around 1,000 employees doing heaven knows what - have to massively up their game. And their drivers need and deserve more time and opportunity, and to, er, race in more diverse fleets of machines.